"The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events."

Artist, Artists, Events, Names

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"The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events."

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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude."

Anton Seidl, Hungarian Celebrity

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"I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor."

Steven Pinker, Canadian Scientist

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"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."

Madeleine Peyroux, American Musician

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"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."

Lady Gaga, American Musician

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"For us chess players the language of artist is something natural."

Vladimir Kramnik, Russian Celebrity

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"So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the good we had done for the artists' side of the industry with G.O.D. had been just as quickly undone by the big boys."

Mike Wilson, American Journalist

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"One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue."

Mia Kirshner, Canadian Actress

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"My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire."

Norman Granz, American Musician

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"I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?"

Branford Marsalis, American Musician

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"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."

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"The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers."

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"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."

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"Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive."

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"No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems."

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"You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film."

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"With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption."

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"Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building."

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"I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own."

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"We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures."

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